MMSL 2008

UPDATED THURSDAY @ 4:30 PM: The seeds for the 2008 Playoff Championship Series are finally set, as is the bracket, and breaking through the log jam of 9-5 teams has rendered an intriguing slate of matchups with significant upset potential. Only two games separate 11 of the 12 seeds.

The process of correctly untying a five-team cluster of nine-win teams has revealed a flaw in the MMSL’s playoff tiebreaker rule that will need to be rectified by the coaches at next year’s spring meeting. For now, the ambiguity of the wording in the tiebreaker rules will spark plenty of debate and probably elicit a howl or three of protest.

But the rules are pretty clear on this – even if the logic of the outcome isn’t – and the teams are slotted accordingly. From here on out, it’s up to championship-hungry teams to take care of business on the beautifully manicured fields of Cabin John Regional Park.

Here are the seeds:
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Updated Monday @ 8:15 PM: The results from Final Day are in, and we know a lot. We know who the No. 1 seed in the playoffs will be July 12-13 at spectacular Cabin John Regional Park. And (we’re pretty sure) we know the rest of the playoff field. We know Atlantic Video’s Tom Vichi, seen above, made a pretty cool diving grab today at Layhill.

We also know a couple of young teams culminated a season of turning heads in the MMSL with big wins in Week 7 (you’re considered to be a handful, Express). We know a perennial league power put up the kind of performance today it expected of itself all year. And we know the weather in this region was unkind to us right up through our final Saturday of action.

To find out about all this and more, read on after the jump.
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Updated @ 10:20 PM: Week 7 scores and standings are updated. My kids are finally in bed (I know you were concerned).

But we’re still working out the playoff seedings. I’m hesitant to post something now, get some team’s hopes up, then have to tell them we screwed up somehow and they’re not in the playoffs. So I’m waiting a couple of hours before posting what we think is the the playoff field.

I know, this runs completely counter to the shoot-first-ask-questions-later ethos of the blogosphere. Guess I’m too old media. Keep checking back.